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Week 6 officiating liveblog

Week 6

by Football Zebras staff - October 17, 2021October 17, 2021 2

Football Zebras is covering the officials and rules interpretations for Week 6 of the 2021 regular season. If you see anything confusing or unusual please let us know. Leave a comment below Send us a tweet @footballzebras Connect with us through Facebook Reply on Instagram Live updates loading ...

Week 5 officiating liveblog

Week 5

by Football Zebras staff - October 10, 2021October 17, 2021 2

Football Zebras is covering the officials and rules interpretations for Week 5 of the 2021 regular season. If you see anything confusing or unusual please let us know. Leave a comment below Send us a tweet @footballzebras Connect with us through Facebook Reply on Instagram Live updates loading ...

Week 4 officiating liveblog

Week 4

by Football Zebras staff - October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 3

Football Zebras is covering the officials and rules interpretations for Week 4 of the 2021 regular season. If you see anything confusing or unusual please let us know. Leave a comment below Send us a tweet @footballzebras Connect with us through Facebook Reply on Instagram Live updates loading ...

Week 3 officiating liveblog

Week 3

by Football Zebras staff - September 26, 2021September 26, 2021 0

Football Zebras is covering the officials and rules interpretations for Week 3 of the 2021 regular season. If you see anything confusing or unusual please let us know. Leave a comment below Send us a tweet @footballzebras Connect with us through Facebook Reply on Instagram Live updates loading ...

Targeting fouls make an impact early in the college football season

by Football Zebras staff - September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 1

Targeting has been a major focus of media and fans in the first few weeks of the 2021 college football season. It sped to the forefront when four targeting fouls were confirmed during the Monday night contest between Ole Miss and Louisiana in Week 1. In the Week 2 matchup

Week 2 officiating liveblog

Week 2

by Football Zebras staff - September 19, 2021September 19, 2021 1

Football Zebras is covering the officials and rules interpretations for the Week 2 of the 2021 regular season. If you see anything confusing or unusual please let us know. Leave a comment below Send us a tweet @footballzebras Connect with us through Facebook Reply on Instagram Live updates loading ...

Scorecard of the 2021 NFL rules meetings [live updates]

2021 rule changes

by Football Zebras staff - April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 0

NFL owners are meeting remotely via Microsoft Teams to discuss many items for the 2021 season, including 11 rules proposals, 2 bylaws changes, and a policy resolution. Football Zebras will be updating this post as information is reported on the status of individual agenda items. A brief summary of each is

NFL officiating getting its stripes in a row for 2021

News

by Mark Schultz and Ben Austro - February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 1

The 2020 season is over. The 2021 Hall of Fame Game is six months away (hopefully!), but there is still much to do for the NFL officiating department as they get ready for the 102nd NFL season. Who will retire? We usually get a few retirement announcements between Week 17 and the

Super Bowl LV liveblog: Chiefs vs. Buccaneers

Super Bowl LV

by Football Zebras staff - February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 1

Follow us here through the game for our live coverage of the calls and rules interpretations of today’s Super Bowl from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Carl Cheffers is the referee for Super Bowl LV. His all-star crew, with alternates shown in shaded rows, includes: Yrs 2020 crew College Occupation Prev. Playoff Prev. SB R 51 Carl Cheffers 21 California-Irvine sales manager 5 WC,

Football Zebras selects its 2021 slate of officials worthy of enshrinement in Hall of Fame

Hall of Fame

by Ben Austro, Mark Schultz, and Cameron Filipe - February 5, 2021February 6, 2021 1

There remains an officiating controversy that has existed for decades, one that can be easily fixed if the powers-that-be choose to address it. The Pro Football Hall of Fame has enshrined players, coaches, and contributors to the game of football since 1963. None of those contributor candidates was a game official,